Olive Oil Test shoot
I'v started building a portfolio of product work , any cc is welcome
More Posts in: Product Photography
Alan Brown
New version of Bluristic available
For iPhone users - a new version of Bluristic has dropped (v1.8) which offers new features and significant improvements in stability & useability.
1
Last: Jun 04, 2026
Dean Wilson
Focus Stacking ~ New to Me
I am interested in learning Macro/Closeup photography and understanding that Focus Bracketing is a good part of the process, I thought I would give focus stacking a try.
7
Last: Jun 04, 2026
Dean Wilson
Vintage Lens
Another visit to our garden using a vintage lens (Canon FD 50mm f/1.4) on my Canon R5. NOTE: With this lens the minimum focusing distance is 18" at which point you have 1/4" depth of field.
1
Last: May 30, 2026
Quinn Kananack
Austin, Texas Blue Hour
Was down in Austin for a bit on a work trip. I've always heard how beautiful the skyline is from the river.
Was a little let down by the clouds, but what can I do!
Ian Hayward
Two from Tenerife
My two favourite images from my recent night time adventure in Tenerife. Foregrounds and skies were shot separately and blended in PS.
3 Comments
Love the concept Eric!
You've got the main areas covered I think & as you asked here are the ares that I would concentrate on... My eye is initially drawn to the fact that the central bright gradient behind the bottle isn't central with the bottle - the bottle's the star of the image so the grad should be directly behind it!
I think that there needs to be some sort of shadows or reflections to ground the bottle and olives... I get that they could be floating with the clouds but the look a little odd with only the small shadow on the left of the bottle.
Personally, I'd try and get more of a gradient across the right side of the bottle and some sort of highlight or rim light on the left side as it's a little flat.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great image and with a couple of little tweaks (in my humble opinion!) it will really sing!
Keep up the great work!
Ian pretty much nailed it, I would just say to lighten the left side in shadow, maybe less contrast with the front, but that's just personal preference. The leaves behind the bottle also seem a little dead, lack a bit of contrast, specially when you compare with the ones on the other side.
The shifted gradient and lack of ground plane shadow are most critical, but easily corrected, for sure.
You did do a interesting image, good concept. If you decide to do any changes, let us see it. Nice work.
thanks guys.. I actually off centered the gradient on purpose. My thinking was that the bottle's axis was off center, so the gradient should be too. The olives in back of the bottle i felt like should be in shadow because of the light source in front of the bottle. I'm going to take another pass at it with some of the suggestions. Thanks !